*Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn’t it?* [*Robert Jordan*](http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6252.Robert_Jordan?utm_medium=email&utm_source=quote_of_the_day) James Oliver Rigney, Jr. (born October 17, 1948) had a thing for pen names. He’s best known as Robert Jordan, creator of The Wheel of Time epic fantasy series, but he wrote westerns as Jackson O’Reilly, historical fiction as Reagan O’Neal, dance criticism as Chang Lung, and at least one thriller under a never-revealed name.